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DB-Engines Ranking of Key-value Stores

The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to their popularity. The ranking is updated monthly.

This is a partial list of the complete ranking showing only key-value stores.

Read more about the method of calculating the scores.

☐ include secondary database models				71 systems in ranking, October 2025
Rank			DBMS	Database Model	Score
Oct 2025	Sep 2025	Oct 2024	DBMS	Database Model	Oct 2025	Sep 2025	Oct 2024
1.	1.	1.	Redis	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS	142.33	-2.84	-7.30
2.	2.	2.	Amazon DynamoDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	75.91	-4.37	+4.06
3.	3.	3.	Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Wide column store Spatial DBMS	22.71	-1.23	-1.78
4.	4.	4.	Memcached	Key-value	15.48	-0.69	-2.32
5.	5.	5.	etcd	Key-value	7.35	-0.10	+0.17
6.	6.	7.	Hazelcast	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	5.29	+0.03	-0.27
7.	7.	6.	Aerospike Detailed vendor-provided information available	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS	4.53	-0.58	-1.05
8.	8.	11.	Oracle NoSQL	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	3.35	-0.27	+0.08
9.	11.	9.	Riak KV	Key-value	3.32	0.00	-0.51
10.	12.	14.	Apache Ignite	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.99	-0.11	+0.05
11.	9.	8.	Ehcache	Key-value	2.99	-0.49	-1.77
12.	13.	10.	ArangoDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Search engine	2.91	-0.02	-0.52
13.	10.	12.	RocksDB	Key-value	2.84	-0.49	-0.20
14.	14.	17.	GemFire	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	2.79	-0.14	+0.18
15.	15.	15.	Google Cloud Bigtable	Multi-model Key-value store Wide column store	2.65	-0.10	-0.26
16.	16.	13.	OrientDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store	2.62	+0.03	-0.41
17.	17.	16.	InterSystems IRIS	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	2.20	-0.07	-0.69
18.	18.	18.	LevelDB	Key-value	2.00	-0.10	-0.39
19.	20.	20.	LMDB	Key-value	1.95	-0.06	+0.03
20.	19.	19.	Infinispan	Key-value	1.94	-0.10	-0.38
21.	22.		Valkey	Key-value	1.80	+0.06
22.	21.	22.	Oracle Coherence	Key-value	1.75	-0.04	-0.09
23.	23.	23.	Amazon SimpleDB	Key-value	1.70	-0.01	-0.12
24.	24.	21.	Oracle Berkeley DB	Multi-model Key-value store Native XML DBMS	1.64	-0.01	-0.22
25.	25.	26.	Geode	Key-value	1.38	-0.02	-0.06
26.	26.	25.	GridGain	Multi-model Columnar Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	1.35	-0.04	-0.14
27.	27.	24.	Tarantool	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS Spatial DBMS	1.31	-0.06	-0.27
28.	28.	27.	FoundationDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.94	-0.03	-0.05
29.	29.	28.	GT.M	Key-value	0.92	+0.02	-0.05
30.	31.	29.	NCache	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Search engine	0.83	+0.02	-0.10
31.	30.	30.	ZODB	Key-value	0.80	-0.03	-0.01
32.	32.	32.	KeyDB	Key-value	0.72	+0.04	+0.08
33.	33.	31.	BoltDB	Key-value	0.58	-0.03	-0.08
34.	35.	37.	Dragonfly	Key-value	0.55	+0.00	+0.10
35.	34.	33.	Graph Engine	Multi-model Graph DBMS Key-value store	0.53	-0.03	-0.09
36.	36.	34.	WebSphere eXtreme Scale	Key-value	0.47	-0.04	-0.09
37.	37.	35.	MapDB	Key-value	0.46	-0.01	-0.05
38.	39.	38.	Hibari	Key-value	0.45	+0.04	+0.01
39.	38.	36.	Scalaris	Key-value	0.42	+0.00	-0.10
40.	40.	40.	Cloudflare Workers KV	Key-value	0.40	+0.02	+0.12
41.	41.	39.	Project Voldemort	Key-value	0.26	-0.01	-0.04
42.	43.	48.	YTsaurus	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.23	0.00	+0.07
43.	45.	45.	Faircom DB	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.22	0.00	+0.03
44.	44.	41.	LeanXcale	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.21	-0.01	-0.06
45.	42.	42.	Immudb	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.20	-0.04	-0.06
46.	46.	47.	YottaDB	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.18	0.00	0.00
47.	47.	57.	ArcadeDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS	0.17	0.00	+0.16
48.	49.	50.	Kyoto Tycoon	Key-value	0.13	+0.01	+0.04
49.	51.	49.	Tokyo Tyrant	Key-value	0.11	+0.02	0.00
50.	48.	43.	Badger	Key-value	0.10	-0.02	-0.10
51.	50.	44.	Speedb	Key-value	0.09	-0.01	-0.11
52.	52.	51.	ScaleOut StateServer	Key-value	0.07	0.00	+0.01
53.	53.	52.	Elliptics	Key-value	0.06	0.00	+0.01
54.	55.	53.	Tigris	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Search engine Time Series DBMS	0.04	-0.01	0.00
55.	56.	54.	STSdb	Key-value	0.04	0.00	+0.01
56.	57.	56.	Resin Cache	Key-value	0.02	+0.01	+0.00
57.	58.	55.	Faircom EDGE	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.02	+0.01	0.00
58.	59.	60.	LedisDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
59.	60.	61.	SwayDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
60.	61.	62.	BergDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	62.	Cachelot.io	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	62.	CortexDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	62.	Helium	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	62.	HyperLevelDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	59.	InfinityDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	0.00
60.	61.	58.	JaguarDB	Multi-model Key-value store Vector DBMS	0.00	±0.00	-0.01
60.	54.	46.	Skytable	Key-value	0.00	-0.05	-0.18
60.	61.	62.	TerarkDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	62.	Tkrzw	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	62.	TomP2P	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	61.	62.	Upscaledb	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00

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